Trinity Thomas had an off night. And for Florida gymnastics’ junior superstar and Olympic aspirant, that’s a truly rare sight.
But it wasn’t nearly enough to keep the No. 1 Gators from cruising through their first home meet of the season against No. 7 Georgia, notching a respectable 197.250 and thumping the Gym Dogs by more than a point.
On the occasion of Thomas’s first fall in almost a year, her classmates — juniors Leah Clapper, Nya Reed, and Sydney Johnson-Scharpf — were the most prominent parts of the contingent that stepped up to make sure the Gators’ score wouldn’t suffer.